Re: xfs_check - out of memory | xfs_repair - superblock error reading

linux-xfs
2006-09-18T14:42:26Z

christian gattermair wrote:

> xfs_repair works but can not find any superblock. any hints?
>
> xfs_repair /dev/sdb1
> Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
> error reading superblock 11 -- seek to offset 1134332153856 failed
> couldn't verify primary superblock - bad magic number !!!
>
> attempting to find secondary superblock...
> ...
> ...
> ..............found candidate secondary superblock...
> error reading superblock 11 -- seek to offset 1134332153856 failed

That's about a terabyte into your 3t fs, but you can't seek to it? Any kernel
messages when this happens? What does /proc/partitions and/or parted say about
the size of /dev/sdb1? Seems like maybe your device itself is not as expected.

-Eric